Floppy Drive Isn't Recognized

If not in the System Bio's, then possibly in the Administrator's System Services File. Advertisements do not imply our endorsement of that product or service. Anyways before you trash it there are two option's to try : 1. Why why why? Check This Out

Same problem? window problem Last Post 1 Week Ago I installed window 7 in local disk c and give 40mb space but unfortunately the space is showing 20gb,how can I do for more So any ideas? #1 ZzZGuy, Nov 21, 2008 Loading...

Copy the files to your hard drive, then copy them back to a floppy disk using your portable USB drive. The computer detected the new hardware, already had the driver (ST350084 1A USB Device) in Windows XP, so there was nothing to install. Stay logged in Search titles only Posted by Member: Separate names with a comma. I have went through all of my disks and I know it isn't anything to do with the floppy disks...

DoubleHelix, Nov 28, 2011 #4 managed Allan Joined: May 24, 2003 Messages: 7,394 I would copy the files off the floppies onto your friend's laptop asap. Show Ignored Content As Seen On Welcome to Tech Support Guy! Also, my computer seems to recognize a external hard drive because i have the option of "safely remove mass storage device." However it usually says "safely remove mass storage device G:" https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/pc-not-recognizing-usb-floppy-drive.239663/ Have a terrific holiday and a good year to us all.k2rr Report • #9 THX 1138 December 24, 2012 at 17:15:50 As long as the computer is plugged in, you don't

As far as My Computer is concerned, I might as well have installed a 5000 gigabyte write only memory made from a chunk of 2x4. Toshiba Satellite Disk Drive Isn't Working More resources Tom's Hardware Around the World Tom's Hardware Around the World Denmark Norway Finland Russia France Turkey Germany UK Italy USA Subscribe to Tom's Same symptoms as the first one. All rights reserved ﻿ Articles & News Forum Graphics & Displays CPU Components Motherboards Games Storage Overclocking Tutorials All categories Chart For IT Pros Get IT Center Brands Tutorials Other

It showed with drive letter fine. If your new USB drive can't read the floppy, then another new drive isn't going to able to read them either.If I may also offer a bit of advice, floppy disks Ok I will try the cleaning disk thing. now suddenly stopped working.

The problem is not how old the floppies are, the problem is the heads from your old drive are out of alignment and not matching up with the heads in the his comment is here John John You know you are retired when you get up in the morning with nothing to do and go to bed at night with only half of it done Bryan21-10-2011, 03:26 PMPoint hs been reached to say bye bye to the floppy. Thank you any help would be appreciated!

[email protected] View Public Profile Send a private message to [email protected] Find More Posts by [email protected] January 2nd, 2007, 05:07 AM #24 amerrrs Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: Howeve, when I looked on My Computer for the new drive, it was not there. Jogger View Public Profile Send a private message to Jogger Find More Posts by Jogger October 3rd, 2006, 09:10 PM #15 lazirsuy Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts:

If it isn't in the BIOS, is there something I need to do to get it there?

Read and Confirm Notification 5. Thank you. 2 answers Last reply Jan 8, 2014 More about disk drive recognising disks anymore ahnilatedJan 8, 2014, 3:38 PM It sounds like the read head in the drive has Then you can read the floppies that you created on your 486. managed replied Feb 9, 2017 at 10:44 PM Help AMD processor LIS333 replied Feb 9, 2017 at 10:40 PM Can add files to microSD card... :z: replied Feb 9, 2017 at

Your best bet would be to check if the motherboard in your new computer has the connections for hooking up the floppy drive via a ribbon cable. Device manager sees it but Windows Explorer doesn't and I can't load a small program. No, create an account now. http://findhosts.net/floppy-drive/floppy-drive-keeps-running.php I used an Ultrastor controller for the second drive.

Still nothing on the My Computer screen showing it is there. I have about 20 floppies that I was going to copy the pictures onto a DVD and I had tried one or two that worked, didn't try them all and didn't Can't really see the point with a floppy as I haven't used one for about six or seven years. Learn More.

the thing was, those pendrives i have inserted worked well before with my same laptop. My ASUS A6000U laptop recognises only few pendrives and it is not recognising the external hard drive. Comments Salem: 5 years too late - storage This article has been dead for over six months. I often have more success with USB 1 ports on front of PC, less success with PCI card USB slots.

I set both services to automatic, but it's still not working properly. This isn't the 1970s anymore". Seagate says that they have gotten a number of calls with the same problem. Can't find it in Computer Management-Disk Management but it is listed in Devices and shows no conflicts.

It drives me crazy, why does it work some times and then not others? Tech Support Guy is completely free -- paid for by advertisers and donations. lonewolf7Jan 8, 2014, 4:34 PM Yes that sounds like a dead drive. Buying a new floppy drive - does that mean I would have to take my computer in to get it installed or is it like an inserting thing I could do

At least 2 years after coming up with that plan I still haven't found a need. The old drives & disks are very unreliable wainuitech21-10-2011, 10:42 PMI had this problem once or twice with workshop PC's. Advertisement pikespeakbob Thread Starter Joined: Jun 10, 2004 Messages: 174 For some reason my USB floppy drive is not found or recognized in Win 7 64 bit, it was working but I discovered that XP install does actually detect the USB floppy drive when I set the BIOS back to IDE and saw the damn thing loading the raid driver (noticed because